Twitter questions Jason Kenney claim that Alberta has seen 2 years of population decline

United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney has come under fire for a tweet in which he incorrectly stated that Alberta’s population has declined for the past two years.

“200,000 unemployed Albertans, 40,000 have stopped looking for work, two years of population decline, tens of thousands of bankrupt businesses,” Kenney said in the tweet.

“And now the NDP makes it even tougher for employees to create jobs.”

200,000 unemployed Albertans, 40,000 have stopped looking for work, two years of population decline, tens of thousands of bankrupt businesses. And now the NDP makes it even tougher for employers to create jobs. https://t.co/OeFJvbrHOX

Interprovincial migration is the movement from one province or territory to another, resulting in a permanent change in residence.

The Alberta government’s numbers show that up until the most recent quarter, for two years the province had more people leaving than arriving via interprovincial migration. However, Alberta’s population overall was still growing during that time.

770 CHQR Global News Radio has reached out to Kenney for comment and will update this story once we receive a response.